UEP, AEB and others collaborating as Team Egg

The group Team Egg held its first meeting two weeks ago and has plans to do so quarterly going forward.

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As part of the United Egg Producers' (UEP) industry collaboration and communications strategic priorities, the organization has teamed up with the American Egg Board (AEB), Egg Nutrition Center, Egg Industry Center, state associations, USPOULTRY, Egg Farmers of Canada and the International Egg Commission (IEC) to create Team Egg.

During a UEP briefing held over Zoom on November 5, Chad Gregory, president of the UEP, announced that the Team Egg group held its first meeting two weeks ago and has plans to do so quarterly going forward.

Gregory said in addition to members from each board, five or six state association representatives were present on the first call.

"They (Team Egg) came up with some really good logical next steps and goals of what Team Egg wants to accomplish in the coming months and years," Gregory said.

UEP's presentation regarding its strategic initiative explained that "better coordination, collaboration and communication is needed to address industry challenges and opportunities more effectively and efficiently." Creating Team Egg allows for communication among boards that may collaborate with different organizations that impact the egg industry.

In addition to Team Egg, "UEP and AEB, in particular, will be working much closer together and collaborating and deciding what each can do in making sure our staff, our consultants, our executive committees and our boards are much more in tune with industry problems, issues, challenges and opportunities. This is working fantastic under AEB's new president, Emily Metz. We seem to be in perfect harmony in regards to this specific strategic priority," said Gregory.

UEP's four strategic priorities were proposed by a diverse group of egg industry leaders during a roundtable meeting in March and ultimately approved by the UEP Board. Among the other priorities are market transparency, sustainability and government affairs.

"We are making fantastic progress on all four of these," Gregory said.

 

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